Posted on 10/05/2022 7:30:15 PM PDT by bitt
"You would have elections that everybody could be proud of. Because right now this country is a laughingstock all over the world," former president said in an interview with Just the News.
Former President Donald Trump is offering a specific policy prescription for restoring Americans' confidence in elections, saying it is time for states to return to paper ballots and to end no-excuses absentee ballots so that results can be finalized on Election Day and the nation can stop looking like a "laughing stock" to the world.
"I call them the fake vote store. That's the mail in ballots. We shouldn't have mail in ballots, unless somebody's very, very sick or it's military far away," Trump told the Just the News, No Noise television show in a wide-ranging interview aired Wednesday night on the Real America's Voice network.
The former president said the long delays -- sometimes stretching days or a week or more -- before many states finalize election results in close races has shaken America's confidence and created doubt in foreign countries. The delays, he said, are from the prolific use of mail-in ballots in some states that can sometimes be counted several days after the election if they have an Election Day postmark.
"We should go to paper ballots, like they did in France. Thirty-six million people (voted) and they had no disputes. Everyone had paper ballots, and it was one-day voting. They didn't store them over there in the corner, and you see the boxes moving all over the place," he said.
The state "should go to one-day voting. They should go to paper ballots. And you would have elections that everybody could be proud of. Because right now, this country is a laughingstock all over the world. They're laughing at our stupid elections," he added.
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We also voted for DJT by over a 2-1 margin.
The fact that this hasn’t been done since the stolen 2020 election shows how spineless, and weak supposed conservative republicans are. They are the washington generals playing against the globetrotters. “Dang ,they outsmarted and beat us again”!
Exactly. That’s how we do it in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
See my post #41.
This is the single issue that needed to be hammered since day 1. The 2020 election should have been attacked on the ground that it was unreliable, not stolen. More people would have paid attention to a forward looking argument that wasn't drowned out by a backwards-looking one.
Instead, we've had this broken record refrain about how the election was stolen, which a lot of people tuned out. That's the truth whether you want to admit it or not.
Trump, as great as he is, failed to address voting crimes after the 2016 election. Huge failure. He could have dealt with each state legislature. Terrible shame.
That's true, but we can make it much harder and therefore less prevalent. We need to get rid of no-escuses mail-in balloting, and any absentee ballot that doesn't arrive by Election Day is not valid regardless of when it was sent. We need to get back to having elections where the result is known the night of - or early morning at the latest. This crap about counting dragging in for two weeks is ridiculous.
Good system.
We must win every race by such a large margin so as to overcome all the invalid fraud dem votes.
20%, or at least 15.
And pray that God will fact check EVERY race!
“AND dipping your finger in purple ink after you vote”
Purple finger is a blatant violation of the civil rights of the fingerless, thus super racist because it disproportionately affects women and minorities
That’s one of those suggestions that sends the leftists into orbit.
That is actually quite funny seeing that you guys are on the exact same side of the Russia-Ukraine conflict as is the Chinese Communist Party. And North Korea. And Iran.
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